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Marisa Peñaloza

Latina journalists shine in a Smithsonian exhibit

Women began reporting and covering TV news when the first Spanish-language network went on the air in the 1960's in the United States. (Jaclyn Nash/Smithsonian's National Museum of American History)

Spanish-language television plays an important role in immigrant communities who don't speak English, as well as bilingual families. Each relies on it as a source of news. Now, some of the female broadcasters who pioneered Spanish- language television are being recognized in a new exhibit at the National Museum of American History, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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